Abstract
In the present work a tire is modeled by using geometrically exact shells. The discretization is done with the help of isoparametric quadrilateral finite elements. The interpolation is performed with linear Lagrangian polynomials for the midsurface as well as for the director field. As time stepping method for the resulting differential algebraic equation a modified backward differential formula rule is chosen. To handle the interaction with a rigid road surface, a one sided normal contact formulation is introduced. An orthotropic material model for geometrically exact shells derived from 3D continuum theory is introduced, to describe the anisotropic behavior of the tire material. Inflation pressure is taken into account with a configuration dependent force. The interaction between the multibody system of a car and the tire is realized via co-simulation. Some quasi-static simulations are presented and compared to measurements on a real tire.
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Notes
- 1.
Throughout this article, we follow the frequently used convention of denoting indices taking integer values \(1\) and \(2\) by lower case Greek letters \(\alpha , \beta , \ldots \), while we use lowercase Latin ones \(i, j, \ldots \) for integer indices ranging from \(1\) to \(3\), and we use Einstein’s summation convention to abbreviate sums, ranging from \(1\) to \(2\) or \(1\) to \(3\) respectively, over (product type) terms with the same indices appearing twice.
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From the viewpoint of the differential geometry of directed surfaces. in Euclidian space, the corresponding tensor quantities are differential invariants of the directed surface, which uniquely determine its geometry in Euclidian space up to rigig body motions, provided that certain integrability conditions are satisfied, generalizing the classical equations of Gauss and Codazzi–Mainardi, required to be fulfilled in the special case \(\mathbf {d} \equiv \mathbf {a}_3\), to the case of an independent director field \(\mathbf {d}\) (see [9] for details and mathematical proofs).
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The curvature tensor or second fundamental form of the parametrized surface \(\varphi {:}\, \omega \rightarrow \mathbb {R}^3\) is given by the derivative \(\mathrm{d}\mathbf {a}_3\) (also called Weingarten map) of the Gauss map \(\chi \mapsto \mathbf {a}_3(\chi ) \in S^2\). The symmetric tensor \(\kappa _{\alpha \beta } \, \mathbf {a}^\alpha \otimes \mathbf {a}^\beta \,=\, \frac{1}{2} ( \mathrm{d}\varphi ^T \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf {d} + \mathrm{d}\mathbf {d}^T \cdot \mathrm{d}\varphi )\) generalizes the Weingarten map to the case of a directed surface given by \((\varphi , \mathbf {d})\) and reduces to \(\mathrm{d}\mathbf {a}_3\) in the special case \(\mathbf {d} = \mathbf {a}_3\).
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Usually the Lamé parameters are denoted as \(\lambda \) and \(\mu \equiv G\). We follow the notation used in Sect. 4.2.1 of [6] to avoid notational overlap with Greek indices and improve notational similarity with the orthotropic case with parameters \(L_\alpha ^{ij}\) appearing in the material tensor.
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Without loss of generality, we define this angle by the relation \(\alpha =\cos ^{-1}(\hat{\mathbf {G}}_1\cdot \mathbf {E}_1 )\), which is always well defined due to the symmetry of the material.
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A variable step size is also possible in BDF. For a simpler notation, we only show the constant version.
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It is called local, because the parametrization differs from time step to time step.
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If \(k \not = 1\) the kinematic states must be interpolated in the interval \([t_n,t_{n+1}]\).
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The units do not match because of the usual standardization.
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Appendix: Material Coefficients for the Shell
Appendix: Material Coefficients for the Shell
The isotropic coefficients for the shell material law are given by:
The coefficients of the orthotropic shell material law are given by:
Note that we make use of the approximation \(G^{\alpha \beta } \approx A^{\alpha \beta }\), such that the integration in the transverse (thickness) direction can be done analytically.
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Roller, M., Betsch, P., Gallrein, A., Linn, J. (2014). On the Use of Geometrically Exact Shells for Dynamic Tire Simulation. In: Terze, Z. (eds) Multibody Dynamics. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07260-9_9
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